March 7, 2020
There was a fine picture in the press the other day of scientists at a national lab showing Donald Trump a molecular model of what I presume was the coronavirus. The look on our Dear Leader’s face – a sort of obstinate petulance commonly seen in children, he clearly would rather have been on the golf course – was priceless.
The look reminded me of Werner Herzog’s comment about evil and stupidity coming together in the eye of a chicken. Except that this look was attached to an object much larger and with many more responsibilities than a chicken.
An appropriate caption might have read “Why are you showing this to Baboon? Baboon can’t eat this!”
Strange times indeed.
MOE
M.I.C.H. – Modernity, Intelligence, Complexity, Humanity